Tech Project Manager
Connecting engineering,
teams and business.
7+ years. Fintech, telecom, dating.
From requirements to launch.
Led the creation of Twinby’s antifraud system: ML detection, device fingerprinting, automated moderation and liveness verification. Owned product priorities and coordinated Data Science, backend and analysts.
Led the creation of an audience segmentation and communications platform. A shared segment builder, campaign launches and analytics without bespoke development for each campaign. Brought the platform to the launch stage.
Released an international fintech holding’s mobile apps in three markets. Coordinated five teams from local requirements and payment flows through testing and release. Retention increased by 15%, conversion by 10%.
Organised the LeSS-to-SAFe transition and launch of a seven-team department. Connected quarterly goals, cross-team dependencies and resource planning into a shared operating model.
Initiated a metadata catalogue project, from analysts’ needs and source requirements to a prototype, demo and feedback. The aim was to make data easier to find and its relationships easier to understand.
Developed parallel delivery of mobile and web products across GovTech, digital health, city services and social apps. The team grew from 5 to 18, and project margins from 12% to 34%.
Progressed from Android developer to co-founder and project lead. Won corporate clients, built project teams and organised mobile and web service development.
2026 → 2019. Most recent role first. Expand a company to explore responsibilities and results.
A dating platform with mobile apps and a web version. Worked with Data Science, Backend, systems analysis and advertising platform teams. Acted as Product Owner for antifraud.
Antifraud and moderation; liveness verification; CDP and marketing communications; B2B advertising platform; CIS/global; internal analytics and automation tools.
Twinby
Mobile products and internal platforms at an international holding company. Led delivery for five teams, around 50 specialists: Android, iOS, Backend/DevOps, QA and analytics.
Regional mobile apps; payment flows and balance updates; deep links and domain delivery; image-data storage; regulatory separation of data.
Fintech holding
MTS Kassa and MTS Franchise: business, e-commerce and telecom products. Worked at team, product-area and cross-team management levels.
LeSS → SAFe transition; launch of a seven-team department; quarterly planning; Agile guild; process-improvement system.
MTS
Fintech, electronic payments and corporate analytics. Supported BI/Data Engineering teams and their collaboration with business stakeholders.
Corporate data warehouse; Amundsen metadata catalogue; BI reporting; requirements for a unified delivery-metrics dashboard.
YooMoney
Custom mobile and web development. Managed five to nine concurrent projects and contributed to team growth and the studio’s project economics.
Beregi Figuru; Active Friends; Active Citizen; telemedicine; waste collection and plastic tracking; apps for entrepreneurs and industry reporting.
Itis Team
My own mobile and web development studio. Started with Android apps, then took responsibility for customers, teams and business operations.
GIS app with a map and AR markers; tourism service; ski resort and concert hall apps; social-media promotion web service; AR-mask research.
Renewal Studio
From Android development and my own studio to international products and multi-team management. Along the way, I have worked with mobile services, payments, corporate data, advertising and antifraud.
Co-founded Curestry, a platform for debugging and evaluating AI agents, and the AI Engineers Guild community. I develop open-source tools, mentor managers, write and speak about development, AI and management.
My projects on GitHub
Connecting user needs with business goals.
Understanding technology, architecture and constraints.
Organising teams from idea to launch.
A useful product. Coordinated teams. Predictable releases.
# Artem Letyushev Tech Project Manager Updated: 2026-10-24 Connecting engineering, teams and business. 7+ years. Fintech, telecom, dating. [email protected] · [Telegram](https://t.me/artemletya) · [GitHub](https://github.com/letya999) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemletya) ## A manager with an engineering mindset. From Android development and my own studio to international products and multi-team management. Along the way, I have worked with mobile services, payments, corporate data, advertising and antifraud. Co-founded Curestry, a platform for debugging and evaluating AI agents, and the AI Engineers Guild community. I develop open-source tools, mentor managers, write and speak about development, AI and management. ## Results. ### Antifraud from scratch 9 services · 2.5× less fraud Led the creation of Twinby’s antifraud system: ML detection, device fingerprinting, automated moderation and liveness verification. Owned product priorities and coordinated Data Science, backend and analysts. ### CDP and personalised communications 10+ communication channels Led the creation of an audience segmentation and communications platform. A shared segment builder, campaign launches and analytics without bespoke development for each campaign. Brought the platform to the launch stage. ### Mobile products in international markets Mexico · India · Nigeria Released an international fintech holding’s mobile apps in three markets. Coordinated five teams from local requirements and payment flows through testing and release. Retention increased by 15%, conversion by 10%. ### A new department at MTS 5 product + 2 service teams Organised the LeSS-to-SAFe transition and launch of a seven-team department. Connected quarterly goals, cross-team dependencies and resource planning into a shared operating model. ### Corporate data catalogue YooMoney · Amundsen Initiated a metadata catalogue project, from analysts’ needs and source requirements to a prototype, demo and feedback. The aim was to make data easier to find and its relationships easier to understand. ### Scaling project delivery ITIS · team 5 → 18 Developed parallel delivery of mobile and web products across GovTech, digital health, city services and social apps. The team grew from 5 to 18, and project margins from 12% to 34%. ### My own studio from scratch Renewal · break-even in 2 months Progressed from Android developer to co-founder and project lead. Won corporate clients, built project teams and organised mobile and web service development. ## Work experience ### Twinby — Tech Project Manager 03.2025 — present Dating · matchmaking platform A dating platform with mobile apps and a web version. Worked with Data Science, Backend, systems analysis and advertising platform teams. Acted as Product Owner for antifraud. Antifraud and moderation; liveness verification; CDP and marketing communications; B2B advertising platform; CIS/global; internal analytics and automation tools. #### Achievements - Launched a nine-service antifraud system: ML detection, device fingerprinting, automated moderation and liveness. Fraud decreased by a factor of 2.5. - Brought the CDP to the launch stage. Aligned the product and technical scope for audience segmentation and communications across 10+ channels. - Organised the release of the CIS/global multitenant architecture, separating regional environments to meet regulatory and investor requirements. - Built the backend team and established regular releases. Lead time fell from 64 to 16 days. - Redesigned requirements preparation with docs-as-code, ADRs, architecture reviews and AI tools. Analysis preparation time decreased by 60%. #### Responsibilities - Antifraud product ownership: business needs, backlog priorities, success criteria, moderation and Data Science collaboration. - Delivery management: roadmaps, scope, resources, risks, releases and dependencies across four teams. - Systems analysis: API, microservice, data and integration requirements with analysts, developers and the architect. - B2B development: advertising platform customers, user problems, changes and priorities. - Delivery visibility: team metrics, CEO reporting, OPEX/CAPEX, escalations, incident reviews and management automation. ### Fintech holding — Project Manager · NDA 06.2023 — 03.2025 Fintech · international mobile products Mobile products and internal platforms at an international holding company. Led delivery for five teams, around 50 specialists: Android, iOS, Backend/DevOps, QA and analytics. Regional mobile apps; payment flows and balance updates; deep links and domain delivery; image-data storage; regulatory separation of data. #### Achievements - Released apps in Mexico, India and Nigeria. Retention increased by 15%; registration-to-deposit conversion increased by 10%. - Scaled the department from two to five teams. Four of the five team leads were promoted from within the department. - Increased stream throughput from four to approximately twelve major epics per quarter. - Accelerated release preparation: regression testing decreased from 4–5 to 2 days, and the release cycle shortened by 20%. - Coordinated the rollout of deep-link and domain-delivery services. CRM managers’ workload decreased by 7%. #### Responsibilities - End-to-end mobile development: business requirements, scope estimates, testing, publication and subsequent changes. - Coordinating platform dependencies: payments, authentication, infrastructure, CRM and shared holding-company services. - Stream backlog management: product initiatives, technical debt, infrastructure work and process improvements. - Leadership development: hiring, onboarding, regular 1:1s, feedback and growth plans for team leads and managers. - Cross-team initiatives: temporary working groups, architecture changes and separation of regulated and unregulated data. ### MTS — Scrum Master / Agile Coach 01.2022 — 06.2023 Telecom · point-of-sale services and franchising MTS Kassa and MTS Franchise: business, e-commerce and telecom products. Worked at team, product-area and cross-team management levels. LeSS → SAFe transition; launch of a seven-team department; quarterly planning; Agile guild; process-improvement system. #### Achievements - Organised the LeSS-to-SAFe transition at the digital transformation office’s request: five cross-functional and two service teams. - Improved quarterly plan completion by 15% through dependency management and collaboration with adjacent streams. - Launched an Agile guild to share practices and develop management skills. - Built an improvement-management system: a shared backlog, RICE prioritisation, hypotheses, validation criteria and work-in-progress limits. - Within a year, expanded from Scrum Master to Agile Coach, moving from team support to organisational change. #### Responsibilities - Stream-level planning: quarterly objectives, dependencies, resources and alignment with adjacent areas. - Developing team practices: refinement, planning, reviews, retrospectives, goals and blocker resolution. - Product Owner support: backlog quality, prioritisation, customer feedback and connecting work to product goals. - Improving delivery quality: defect triage, release processes, flow metrics and responsibility allocation. - Working with leaders on organisational design, leadership development, resources, payroll and P&L. ### YooMoney — Delivery Manager 03.2021 — 01.2022 Fintech · electronic payments Fintech, electronic payments and corporate analytics. Supported BI/Data Engineering teams and their collaboration with business stakeholders. Corporate data warehouse; Amundsen metadata catalogue; BI reporting; requirements for a unified delivery-metrics dashboard. #### Achievements - Brought delivery of agreed quarterly commitments to 100% of business stakeholders’ expectations. - Coordinated roughly 90 business and technical participants, reducing friction in approvals and task handovers. - Initiated a metadata catalogue project. Organised an Amundsen prototype, demonstration and user feedback collection. - Developed a task-definition standard covering purpose, context, inputs, expected outcomes and acceptance criteria. - Designed the delivery analytics project: requirements for Jira data collection, metric calculation and Power BI reporting. #### Responsibilities - Demand management: business requests, requirements clarification and shared-backlog prioritisation. - Organising BI/Data Engineering work: planning, flow, blockers and cross-team dependencies. - Stakeholder communications: timelines, scope, status updates, changes and escalations. - Internal platform development: business cases, project charters, requirements, demos and feedback. - Delivery analysis: throughput, lead time, work in progress, work-item age and evidence for forecasting. ### Itis Team — Project Manager 03.2020 — 03.2021 IT outsourcing · mobile and web development Custom mobile and web development. Managed five to nine concurrent projects and contributed to team growth and the studio’s project economics. Beregi Figuru; Active Friends; Active Citizen; telemedicine; waste collection and plastic tracking; apps for entrepreneurs and industry reporting. #### Achievements - Increased project margins from 12% to 34% through automation and reusable software components. - Contributed to a threefold increase in company revenue, including growth in average project value. - Expanded the team from 5 to 18 people: developers, QA, designers and analysts. - Increased team throughput from 7 to 16 tasks per week by reorganising work. - Integrated QA into delivery: task and release checks, collaboration between testing and development, and defect management. #### Responsibilities - Project portfolio management: priorities, schedules, specialist capacity and dependencies between engagements. - Discovery and presale: customer needs, scope estimates, constraints, MVP scope and commercial agreements. - Requirements and design: user journeys, functional documentation, interfaces and API integrations. - Delivery organisation: Kanban, regular reviews, retrospectives, testing and acceptance. - Studio development: hiring, project documentation, Kaiten, Notion and Deskle, and project economics. ### Renewal Studio — Co-founder · Android Developer → Project Manager 2019 — 2020 Software development · project studio My own mobile and web development studio. Started with Android apps, then took responsibility for customers, teams and business operations. GIS app with a map and AR markers; tourism service; ski resort and concert hall apps; social-media promotion web service; AR-mask research. #### Achievements - Brought the studio to break-even in two months. - Won corporate clients, increasing project budgets by a factor of 3–4. - Built three mobile and web development project teams. - Established studio operations: roles, planning, change management and a transition to Scrum. - Moved from development into project leadership while retaining hands-on Android, interface design and data experience. #### Responsibilities - Sales and presale: finding customers, understanding needs, estimating projects and agreeing terms. - Delivery management: assigning work to staff and external teams, tracking deadlines and acceptance. - Business analysis: app functionality, user scenarios and interface design. - Change management: defects, new requirements, scope adjustments and schedule updates. - Technical and operational work: Android with Java, databases, Jira, Confluence and Slack. ## Processes Gantt · WBS · Scrum · Kanban · Agile · SAFe · LeSS · Decomposition · Roadmap · Risks · OKR · KPI · Delivery · Backlog · P&L · OPEX / CAPEX · Hiring · Flow · Releases · Budgets · SLA · FinOps · Forecast · PMBoK · P3.express · RTE · Lead Time · Cycle Time · Capacity · Stakeholders · Facilitation · Coaching · Portfolio · Prioritization · AI-native SDLC · Performance Review · Sprint Planning · Sprint Review · Retrospective · Daily Scrum · PI Planning · System Demo · Release Train · Dependency Mapping · Risk Register · RAID · Critical Path · WIP Limits · Throughput · Velocity · Takt Time · Service Level Expectation · Monte Carlo · Incident Management · Change Management · RACI · Decision Log · Stakeholder Map · Resource Planning · Budget Forecast · Team Topologies · Team Health · Continuous Improvement · Value Stream Mapping I make multi-team work manageable: clear priorities, aligned dependencies, realistic commitments and timely feedback. ### Areas of work Project and Delivery Management, launching teams and departments, portfolio management, organisational change, leadership development, releases, quality and incident management. ### Project examples MTS: LeSS → SAFe transition and a new department of five product and two service teams. International holding: scaling a mobile stream to five teams, developing team leads and shortening regression testing. Twinby: regular backend releases, systems analysis, architecture reviews and engineering metrics. YooMoney: business demand management and BI/Data Engineering coordination. ITIS and Renewal: multi-project delivery, hiring, QA, project economics and client relationships. ### Methods and tools Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe and Nexus; quarterly planning, risk and dependency management, facilitation, 1:1s and leadership development. To improve flow, I use WIP limits, classes of service, lead time, cycle time, throughput and blocker analysis. For delivery quality: readiness and acceptance criteria, defect triage, release policies and incident reviews. Tools: Jira, Confluence, Kaiten, YouTrack, Notion, Miro, GitLab, Excel/Google Sheets and Power BI. ### People I worked with Development teams and team leads, PMs and POs, department heads, CEOs, CTOs and CPOs, HR, finance, sales, support, external contractors and corporate clients. ### Education and certifications SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer; Scrum.org PSM I; ICAgile: Agile Coaching, Agile Team Facilitation, Agile Fundamentals; Kanban University: System Design, System Improvement. ## Engineering React · Rust · Python · TypeScript · Next.js · FastAPI · LangGraph · RAG · API · SQL · ADR · MCP · DevOps · CI/CD · Docker · Git · Data Engineering · MS SQL · Data Lake · Power BI · Airflow · Angular · Flutter · Dart · Android · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · ETL / ELT · DataLens · Dagster · Go · Tauri · Observability · Microservices · AI Agents · JavaScript · Node.js · Astro · Three.js · WebGL · HTML · CSS · Vite · Playwright · REST · GraphQL · OpenAPI · WebSocket · JSON · DAX · Power Query · T-SQL · Data Warehouse · Data Pipelines · ETL · ELT · Data Modeling · Star Schema · OLAP · GitHub Actions · Linux · Kotlin · Gradle · Android SDK I started in Android development. I can investigate APIs, data models and architectural dependencies, discuss technical trade-offs and build a prototype to test an idea. ### Areas of work Mobile and web development, backend and microservices, payment integrations, corporate data warehouses, ETL/ELT, ML and computer vision, LLMs and AI agents. ### Project examples Twinby antifraud: ML detection, moderation, verification and device signals. CDP/MQOS: segmentation, campaign orchestration, event streams and analytics. CIS/global: separating regional application, data and infrastructure environments. Amundsen at YooMoney: corporate data discovery, metadata and relationships between sources. Mobile infrastructure: deep links, domain delivery, balance updates and image-data handling. Personal tools: AI-STP, agent skills and MCP, Text-to-SQL prototypes and management analytics automation. ### Technologies and tools Hands-on experience: Java and Android, Python, SQL, Git, working with APIs, AI agents and automation. Technology context of projects: Go, Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular and .NET; ClickHouse, CockroachDB, MSSQL, Redis, Kafka and NATS; DWH, ETL/ELT, CI/CD. Design and documentation: API contracts, Swagger/OpenAPI, C4 diagrams, ADRs, GitLab, docs-as-code, architecture reviews and acceptance criteria. ### People I worked with Backend, frontend and mobile developers, architects, systems analysts, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, DevOps, QA and information security specialists. ### Background My technical foundation is Android development, data work and my own software projects. I gained further practice in mobile products, platforms and AI tools. ## Product Fintech · HealthTech · Dating · Telecom · CustDev · CJM · CDP · Antifraud · Retention · Conversion · Hypotheses · Metrics · A/B · Growth · NPS · UX · Product Discovery · JTBD · MVP · Unit Economics · Monetization · Funnels · Cohorts · Activation · Churn · LTV · CAC · Segmentation · North Star · Go-to-Market · Experimentation · Product Analytics · AppMetrica · User Research · User Interviews · Usability Tests · Funnel Analysis · AARRR · LTV / CAC · ARPU · DAU / MAU · Retention Cohorts · Onboarding · Pricing · Subscription · Payments · Fraud Detection · Recommendations · CRM · Push Campaigns · Journey Mapping · Product Strategy · Value Proposition · Opportunity Mapping · RICE · ICE · Kano · HEART · Feature Adoption · Experiment Design · Product-Market Fit · Market Research · Customer Segments · Product Roadmap I start with user needs and business goals. I conduct research, formulate hypotheses, model the economics and determine what to build first. ### Domains and areas AdTech and MarTech: advertising platforms, audience segmentation, CDP, campaigns and personalised communications. Dating and Trust & Safety: dating services, antifraud, verification, moderation and abuse prevention. FinTech, Crypto and Betting: payments, balances, mobile products, user acquisition and retention in international markets. Telecom, e-commerce and B2B: MTS products, digital business services, partner and corporate sales. GovTech and city services: citizen requests, industry apps, interactions between residents, organisations and government bodies. DeepTech, AI and Data: AgentOps, ML services, analytics platforms, corporate data and developer tools. ### Product examples Twinby: antifraud, advertising platform, and a segmentation and communications platform. International holding: mobile apps for Mexico, India and Nigeria. Curestry: a platform for debugging, quality evaluation and optimisation of AI agents. Active Citizen: resident requests, voting and tracking request resolution. Beregi Figuru: a mobile service for personal goals, nutrition and progress tracking. ### Methods and tools I conduct CustDev and problem interviews, build CJMs and examine user scenarios and competing products. I develop value propositions, model unit economics, define MVPs and set priorities. I work with funnels, conversion, retention, cohorts, CAC and LTV. Tools: Miro, Figma, Google Sheets and Excel; SQL, Power BI, DataLens, AppMetrica and Google Analytics. ### People I worked with Product Managers and Product Owners, UX/UI designers, researchers, product and business analysts, marketers, CRM teams, sales, B2B clients and founders. ### Education Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University · Innovation: innovative software product management. A product manager by education. ## Writing and projects [Habr](https://habr.com/ru/users/Renewal_Studio/) · [vc.ru](https://vc.ru/id458029) · [ai-stp](https://github.com/letya999/ai-stp) · [job_ftch](https://github.com/letya999/job_ftch)
